Some work has been done on studying writing style and quality. For instance, [1]} studied how various linguistic and syntactic features such as vocabulary and lexical cohesion correlate with text quality and readability. Furthermore, [2]} combined readability, interestingness and content-related features to predict science writing quality. As for book success, in particular, [3]} proposed a dataset for book success where book success was determined through the Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ download count. They evaluated how different style-related features such as lexical choices, word categories, sentiment, and grammatical rules affect the success of novels. They argued that more success corresponds to less readability, measured in terms of Flesch [4]} and Gunning Fog [5]} indices. We obtain similar results with respect to the Automated Readability Index (ARI) and Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) index but opposite result on Coleman-Liau Index (CLI).
